Reefer freight?

It might depend on where you live and where you want to run, etc.

 

Deal direct with a broker,

no need to mess with a trucking company.

 

Believe it or not I have been getting best rates with CH Robinson.

 

Well this is a good question. You have options aplenty in where you can lease onto, or use a brokerage company. The downfall to many brokerage companies is they are a 60-120 day pay rate. Unless you hook up with one that pays after every load delivered. They are few and far between. As for hauling produce and since you have your own authority, truck, and trailer. You can use load boards to find your own produce loads . Again you could run into a payment issue, unless you have a bank account set up for a direct deposit after delivering load. Research into brokerage companies that will do a direct deposit or money wire transfer to your account. California is the main area for produce loads. I worked for John Christner pulling reefer, and i ran loads to CA , picking up produce loads outbound towards the East Coast. Running boxed beef out of the Midwestern states to West, and East Coast also. Many times the produce will go to a D.C, usually Wal-Mart

 

Freymiller might work for you.

Here: https://drive4freymiller.com/own-authority.php

 

^^ that's just crazy why would a person with their own truck and trailer and authority lease onto a mega bottom feeder company.

 

Sounds like Swampfox had a rich uncle who died and he thought buying a new truck and trailer would be the best way to learn about reefer freight. I'm sure he could wait 30 days for broker checks.

 

That's for sure!

 

There are brokers out there that pay well before 30 days without a fee. As long as you spend a little bit of time looking to find who those brokers are it will not be an issue. Few pay in 7 days or less without a fee but must will pay 14-21 days without a fee. It is OK to get paid with a fee until you get a little bit of cash flow going. After that I would not recommend it.
LTL reefer is doing awesome at the moment. So Try H&M Bay or Al-Amin Brothers or D&G and Budreck to start. After that look at cold storage facilities most if not all have their own brokerages. Last but not least there are several chicken plants that you can earn your way into running direct for, in the southeast.

Laredo has a lot of produce and there are always meat loads just about everywhere going down Laredo.